eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
pregnancy; conception; gestation
calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
Japanese (school) lunchroom; Japanese (school) cafeteria
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
(swimming) pool; pool (billiards); pool (together)
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
anthology; collection of works
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
twenty-ninth day of the month; twenty-nine days
older sister; elder sister
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to be about to leave; to be just going out
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
considerably; fairly; quite
to be uneasy; to be anxious; to fear
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
first meeting; first interview with
(medical) doctor; physician
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
to talk; to chat; to chatter